Chickens in the Mist, part the fourth.

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:: JANE GALT.

In a recent column, Paul Krugman takes a break from being shrill about President Bush to be shrill about chickens. Krugman considers the increasing numbers of chickens crossing roads to be a scandal of major proportions, one which illustrates the perfidy of this Administration, which just proves my adage that the party out of power is always insane. (How the out-of-power party, being insane, ever manages to convince people to put them back in power is a mystery. But I digress, my little chickadees.)

The problem is one of opportunity cost, and how such things scale across a large-scale economy. The problem is that resources have to be allocated, and in any such system, one has to keep in mind who is doing the allocating. So we end up in a situation where chicken-crossing surpluses are not only inevitable, but desirable. It is indicative of a general trend toward more wealth being created in the chicken-crossing set, and that, contrary to what Krugman would have you believe, is a good thing. Ergo, those who question the wisdom of the chickens crossing the road are ignoring a fundamental economic reality, and they'd really all be a lot happier if they'd become libertarians and realize that I'm right about everything.

(NOTE: It should be clear that I basically made up a lot of economic-sounding folderol here. If this post makes any sense, that is by sheer accident rather than by design. As if I needed to say that, in a post about chickens.)